# Governance

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## Overview

Part of ensuring a true player driven economy is to give control of the governance to the players as well. As a result, The Etherscape has a governance token called [Imperial Sovereigns](https://whitepaper.etherscape.io/cryptointegration/governance/imperial-sovereigns) in order to allow players to vote on specific changes to the game. The kinds of changes that will be controlled by the governance tokens are the following...

* Spending [community wallet](https://whitepaper.etherscape.io/cryptointegration/community-wallet) funds
* Balance changes
* Proposals for new content to be added
* [Land expansions](https://whitepaper.etherscape.io/cryptointegration/future-plans)
* [Cross game ](https://whitepaper.etherscape.io/cryptointegration/multiverse-support)item collaborations

You can purchase Imperial Sovereigns on [NFT.io](https://nft.io/asset/2100-1).

Imperial Sovereigns will also continue to have increased utility over time in many areas of the game. To learn more about their utility check [here](https://whitepaper.etherscape.io/cryptointegration/governance/imperial-sovereigns).

## Voting

In order to vote you need to talk to the Governor who is to the northeast of town...

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Click on the governor in order to open the governance window\...

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From the governance window you can do the following...

* View active and recent historical proposals
* View when voting will start and end for a proposal
* View how many votes you have after they have been assigned (1 vote per Imperial Sovereign)
* View how much bonus ENJ will be distributed to players who participate in voting
* If the proposal is active and you have votes, you can use the Vote buttons to cast them.